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==Solon seeks higher fine for crime of 'intriguing against honor'== | |||
*Source: http://www.philstar.com/nation/article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=200&articleId=804592 | |||
*Monday, May 7, 2012 | |||
:by FLORO L. MERCENE | |||
MANILA, Philippines - A person who will be convicted of committing the crime of "intriguing against honor" will only be asked to pay a fine of P200. | |||
The very small fine prompted Marindueque Rep. Lord Allan Jay Velasco to file House Bill 5830, which seeks to increase the fine of P200 to P16,000. | |||
"With regard to the fine component, the amounts are still based on 1930 prices, the year the Revised Penal Code otherwise known as Act 3815 was enacted. The massive inflation and devaluation our currency has gone through renders the punitive fine component of the RPC negligible," Velasco said. | |||
He said that in adjusting the fines accurately, the inflation rate should be computed from 1930 up to the present. | |||
"There is no data available for the Consumer Price Index earlier than 1955 in the Philippines and from 1986 to 1988. Moreover, there had been a total of eight rebasing of base years for the computation of inflation rates," said Velasco, a vice chairman of the House Committee on Constitutional Amendments. | |||
Velasco said the year 1955 will be used as the base year for the computation up to 2011, and disregarding the inflation rate in the years 1986 to 1988 making the derived inflation rate a conservative one. | |||
The crimes of intriguing against honor include libel, oral defamation, slander by deed and incriminatory machinations such as incriminating a person by planting evidence and destroying a person's reputation by a scheme, plot, design, but not by direct spoken words. | |||
==Butterfly Farming== | ==Butterfly Farming== | ||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/358921/butterfly-farming | *Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/358921/butterfly-farming | ||
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Carol experimented on what food butterflies preferred most and found out they like ripe papaya, water melon, banana, etc. She also concocted a mixture of water and sugar or honey, which made the insect stronger and able to fight infections. | Carol experimented on what food butterflies preferred most and found out they like ripe papaya, water melon, banana, etc. She also concocted a mixture of water and sugar or honey, which made the insect stronger and able to fight infections. | ||
==Solon seeks higher fines against commission of libel== | ==Solon seeks higher fines against commission of libel== | ||